Today's intelligence: the lastest on a proposed state alcohol tax, the state budget, an attempt by the EPA to increase clean water standards and the deepening financial troubles of a Virgin Galactic sister space-launch company
Imagine the place you feel most comfortable in, the place you call home. Imagine that place altered overnight. This is what our quaint mountain town of Kingston, New Mexico recently experienced.
A huge majority of the Truth or Consequences locals and visitors alike are unaware of what lies beyond the city limits.
Today's intelligence: If livestock's trampling of public land is undesirable, why do grazing fees for "authorized" (as opposed to feral) cattle remain so low?
Today's intelligence: the latest promised timeline for Virgin Galatic commercial spaceflights at Spaceport America; and pros and cons of the U.S. Forest Service's recently concluded shoot down of feral cows in the Gila
A roundup of stories of significance to Sierra County published by state and national news sources over the last 10 days
To say the day was a huge success is the epitome of understatement.
We often gaze at life through a filter, a window. What we see and experience from either inside or out varies and most often colors how we perceive. When you step outside, reality is a ready embrace
Today's intelligence: According to a special report by Searchlight New Mexico, Truth or Consequences's last best hope to avoid a water infrastructure meltdown is an infusion of cash drawn from the pools of discretionary monies that the governor and state legislators can use to fund high-priority projects.
Today's intelligence: Though a court decision on a deal that could end the fight over Rio Grande water distribution between New Mexico and Texas is months away, state officials recognize the need to spend millions to cut groundwater pumping below Elephant Butte. Plus: Proposed changes to the nomination and qualifications of state Game Commissioners move ahead at the Roundhouse.
Today's intelligence: the arguments for and against the proposed settlement of the years-long Texas-New Mexico water dispute; and the financial and technical woes of Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic's similarly troubled corporate sibling
Today's intelligence: An historic investment in land and water conservation programs that would leverage hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money for New Mexico is under consideration at the Roundhouse.
